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One of the new features with Exchange 2010 is the client access array. When configured correctly, this is quite a useful feature. In my view it is something that should be configured on all Exchange 2010 servers, even on a single server deployment.
Background
The full explanation of the CAS Array feature is available on Technet, but in short, the reason it was introduced was due to the changes i... [More]

The default behaviour of Outlook with regards to sent items continues to come up on forums as an issue.
By default, when you send an email using the From field via your Send As permissions, the item you have sent goes in to your own Sent Items folder. This is because you sent it, not the person whose mailbox it was sent from. This can be useful from a tracking point of view (who sent the email).
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During a recent mass migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, I had a large number of mailboxes that appeared on the new server as the type "Linked".
Now while you can change the mailbox type between normal, shared and resource, it isn't supported to change it from Linked. The only fix is to disconnect the mailbox from the user and reconnect it. This of course has other consequences if not ... [More]

Anyone who has done a cross forest public folder migration will almost certainly be reliving their nightmares about it simply from reading the title. I was just the same.
Extract the content to a PST file, either manually (selecting about 1000 items at a go) or by using a rule, move the PST file to a machine in the new forest, then import.
Slow, mind-numbing dull and therefore not the most fun p... [More]

The blog is getting lots of search engine hits for Exchange 2010 databases, probably because I wrote about the database size on the older versions in the past.
For older versions of Exchange see the posting here: http://blog.sembee.co.uk/post/Exchange-Database-Limits.aspx
For Exchange 2010, things are much the same. On standard edition, the initial soft limit is 50gb, which can be increased as r... [More]